In other areas of Japan, such as forest in the Mt. The number of reads may be prone to being biased by a small number of samples of which feces contained considerable amounts of a plant tissue. They avoid competition by occupying different physical locations. We characterize the diet, potential dietary niche overlap and prey preference of a large African carnivore guild on small fenced protected areas. 2011; small-scale DNA barcoding analyses with subcloning method—Shirako et al. 2002). 4. The higher dependency of A. speciosus on the Fagaceae species demonstrated by this study supports this prediction. Niche breadth based on the total diet (all seasons combined) of A. argenteus and A. speciosus was 0.458 and 0.443, respectively (95% credible interval [CI]: 0.455–0.462 for A. argenteus and 0.426–0.459 for A. speciosus). The 2 Apodemus species are small-sized rodents; body mass of A. argenteus and A. speciosus is ca. 2006; Onodera et al. The pattern of the dietary niche partitioning in the 2 Japanese wood mice species appears to change with season. Kress, W. J., C.García-Robledo, M.Uriarte, and D. L. Erickson. The abundance of acorns is known to fluctuate yearly (e.g., Onodera et al. Therefore, further information about a local floral DNA database in the study site will enable finer species identification (e.g., see Nakahara et al. There is geographic variation in the breeding season of A. argenteus and A. speciosus along the Japanese archipelago (once or twice per year—Fujimaki 1969, 1970; Yoshida 1972; Murakami 1977), but, in Hokkaido, the majority of breeding activity occurs once from April to September (peak is in July to August) for A. argenteus (Fujimaki 1969, 1970) and once from April to September (peak is in April to June) for A. speciosus (Kondo and Abe 1977). Food items of A. argenteus were derived from 20 families, and from 21 families for A. speciosus. For decades, biologists have sought to understand how diverse assemblages of large mammalian herbivores (LMH) partition food resources. evidence on niche partitioning, dietary seasonality and potentially even fallback food consumption. Before the treatment of Proteinase K, 3 fecal pellets were cut intensively with sterile scissors inside the 2.0 ml microtube. endstream This suggests that a certain degree of ecological niche segregation is needed for their coexistence. uuid:96b68de3-1dd1-11b2-0a00-110a275dc400 It furthers the University's objective of excellence in research, scholarship, and education by publishing worldwide, This PDF is available to Subscribers Only. 2014; Kartzinel et al. The roles of morphological traits, resource variation and resource partitioning associated with the dietary niche expansion in the fish‐eating bat Myotis pilosus. 98% (762/781) of total reads for Urticaceae (Supplementary Data SD3) from 1 A. speciosus individual collected in October (TN366, JSFD226). The intraspecific dietary niche overlap between perch size classes reflected an enhanced partitioning, whereas that of pike size classes was found almost unchanged in response to pikeperch stocking. Such a recent advancement applying NGS meta-barcoding has provided good opportunity to reliably estimate dietary characteristics of animal species. Disagreement arises from confusion over its precise definition and the variety of approaches to measure its prevalence. Cardillo, M., J. L. Gittleman, and A. Purvis. Sato, J. J., T. Kawakami, Y. Tasaka, M. Tamenishi, and Y. Yamaguchi. The 2 species showed a relatively large degree of niche overlap in plant dietary profiles, feeding mostly on acorn-producing Fagaceae species (assumed to be Quercus crispula). Chang Y(1)(2), Song S(1), Li A(1), Zhang Y(1), Li Z(1)(3), Xiao Y(1), Jiang T(1), Feng J(1)(2)(3), Lin A(1)(4). <>stream The diversity of these major diet items was clearly different in the 2 species. 2012; Cristescu 2014). 2010, 2013; Pompanon et al. 2015). There is a large difference in body size between these 2 Apodemus species. 2015) with the default randomization algorithm, ra3 (Lawlor 1980). Finally, we used an Ion PGM (ThermoFisher Scientific, Tokyo, Japan) for sequencing the fragments on each bead loaded on the semiconductor chip (Ion 318 Chip v2; ThermoFisher Scientific, Tokyo, Japan). 10.1073/pnas.1503283112 10.1073/pnas.1503283112 Supplementary data are available at Journal of Mammalogy online. d Species or genus in the same family exclusively existing in the study area are shown. 5G based on the occurrences data). We are grateful to Y. Akimoto, A. Akimoto, R. Onodera, and H. Wakabayashi for their assistance with fieldwork to capture mice and collect fecal samples, and the staff of the Uryu Experimental Forest, Hokkaido University, for providing support for the field investigation. Supplementary Data SD4.—Correspondence among top BLAST hit genera, species in the study area, possible diet species, and plant types of identified taxa. Sixteen plant families were present in the diets of both mouse species, while 5 families (Apiaceae, Astraceae, Celastraceae, Rosaceae, and Salicaceae) were found only in the diet of A. argenteus, and 6 families only in the diet of A. speciosus (Apocynaceae, Araceae, Cannabaceae, Polygonaceae, Ranunculaceae, and Urticaeae). Emrich, M. A., E. L.Clare, W. O.Symondson, S. E.Koenig, and M. B. Fenton. Therefore, we attributed oat and sunflower reads detected in this study to the baits for trapping. To date, d13C values have been analyzed in fossil tooth enamel of many African hominin taxa, revealing high levels of inter-specific dietary diversity in the reli- ance on C4- and C3-plants (van der Merwe et al., 2008; Lee-Thorp et al., 2010, 2012). A larger number of individuals of A. speciosus (18 of 49 individuals) took Fagaceae species than A. argenteus (9 of 43 individuals; Fig. Population density was unrelated to dietary niche breadth across island and mainland populations. Thus, it is interesting that A. speciosus, which has a greater tolerance of tannins, consumed the Fraxinus species in autumn (when Fraxinus species produce seeds) more frequently than A. argenteus. This is supported by the greater ability of A. argenteus to climb and walk with good stability on thin branches with its flexible digits and long prehensile tail (Imaizumi 1978). 6A). These dominances of the specific individuals in the number of reads may exaggerate the proportions of Rutaceae and Urticaceae in comparison with the occurrence data (Figs. 2013). However, details of the mechanisms that segregate their niches have not been examined. Here we assessed this mechanism by testing its core assumption, that evolved differences in foraging behavior correspond with differences in resources consumed. In the final step to determine the dietary taxon for each obtained sequence, we performed a BLAST search (Altschul et al. Arbortext Advanced Print Publisher 9.1.510/W Unicode 5) More distantly related species occupying the similar trophic niche also should be investigated for further understandings of the coexistence system of the 2 Apodemus species. Mean frequency of shared and unshared food items was 7.47 and 1.60 occurrences for A. argenteus, respectively (Brunner–Munzel permutation test, P = 0.0007), while they were 3.87 and 1.67 occurrences for A. speciosus, respectively (Brunner–Munzel permutation test, P = 0.1727). Livetrapping of wood mice was conducted at the study site from June to October in 2014 with Sherman live traps (H. B. Sherman Co., Tallahassee, Florida) baited with oats and sunflower seeds with permission from the Hokkaido Government. As observed in the trend of the consumption of Fagaceae species in the autumn, it appears that A. argenteus and A. speciosus also take a generalist and a specialist strategy, respectively, for the Ulmaceae species (assumed to be Ulmus sp. Since acorn masting did not occur in 2013 (the previous year) and 2014 (the year examined in this study), the niche partitioning observed by this study may be specific to poor resource conditions, as observed for Darwin’s finches in the Galápagos (De León et al. The vertical axis indicates the number of reads obtained from the analyses of the Ion PGM next generation sequencer. 2014). This pattern was also observed in 2 sympatric species of Ctenomys rodents in Brazil (Lopes et al. Sept. and Oct. are abbreviations for September and October, respectively. Monthly difference of dietary profiles of Apodemus argenteus (Aar) and A. speciosus (Asp) based on the proportion of the binary occurrence data (upper) and the proportion of the number of reads obtained from the analyses of the Ion PGM next generation sequencer (lower). The 2 Apodemus species consumed Oleaceae species (assumed to be the Manchurian ash, F. mandshurica; Table 1) in different seasons, being consumed by A. argenteus from June to August (the peak was in July), and by A. speciosus from August to October (the peak was in September; Fig. 2011). De León, L. F., J.Podos, T.Gardezi, A.Herrel, and A. P. Hendry. The color corresponds to plant families as indicated in the legend (see online pdf for colored version of this figure). Data from proportions of occurrences and Ion PGM reads both showed seasonal changes in the dietary components of both Apodemus species (Fig. Currently, the DNA meta-barcoding approach based on the sensitive and high-throughput next-generation sequencing (NGS) technology is used increasingly to document biodiversity in various ecosystems (Valentini et al. With the DNA meta-barcoding analyses from feces using NGS, we obtained a more finely resolved perspective of the plant diets of the Apodemus species, and showed a wider niche breadth of A. argenteus on tree species and a higher dependency of A. speciosus on Fagaceae species (Q. crispula) as described above. Deagle, B. E., A. C.Thomas, A. K.Shaffer, A. W.Trites, and S. N. Jarman. In this study, we profile plant diets of 2 sympatric species of wood mice in Japan, A. argenteus and A. speciosus, using DNA meta-barcoding analyses with NGS, and compare their dietary profiles to explore the niche partitioning and the mechanism of coexistence between them. 70% (865/1,247) of total reads for Rutaceae (Supplementary Data SD3) came from 1 A. argenteus individual collected in September (TN340, JSFD262), and ca. In the probability distribution of the niche overlap index obtained from the null model (ra3) in EcoSimR, the upper value of the 95% range (2-tail) was 0.639, and lower than the observed value (Supplementary Data SD6). The probability that the observed value occurs under the conditions of the null model was smaller than 0.01, indicating that the niche overlap between the 2 Apodemus species was significantly higher than would be expected from the null model. We extracted DNA for all the individuals from 11 January to 2 February 2016 (Supplementary Data SD1). Consistent with this general tendency, assemblages of terrestrial mammals in the Japanese archipelago are found to be phylogenetically diverse (Sato 2016). Thus, we found mixed support for behavioral niche partitioning. endobj Our results indicate that dietary generalism is not an effective way of increasing population density nor is it result of lower competitive pressure. Seasonal changes in the niche breadth (A) and niche overlap (B) of Apodemus argenteus and A. speciosus based on the number of occurrences of plant taxa in the diet. 2007; Onodera et al. For example, remarkable differences were observed in Rutaceae (assumed to be P. amurense; Table 1) and Urticaceae (assumed to be Laportea bulbifera) between the occurrence and read data (Figs. Because individual wood mice consumed 2 or more dietary items, the total number of occurrences exceeded the number of wood mice. Locomotory habits also might be associated with niche separation (Galetti et al. (2017) showed that the acorn production in the previous year had a positive effect on the population abundance of A. speciosus, while that effect was much less for A. argenteus (see also Saitoh et al. 2015; Nakahara et al. Altschul, S. F., W.Gish, W.Miller, E. W.Myers, and D. J. Lipman. 2008). We detected 51 trnL sequences for possible dietary plant taxa (26 families), excluding the unreliable sequence based on the criteria described above. niche partitioning by plant height separate by the height of their food niche partitioning by time and grass height occupy the same areas over different periods of time and how much grass has been eaten by previous occupying animals White circle with a solid black line indicates the Uryu Experimental Forest, Hokkaido University, in Horokanai, Hokkaido. Therefore, dietary profiles for these species remain to be fully determined, and consequently, niche partitioning according to a fine-scale resolution of diet has not been demonstrated. Traps were set at 10-m intervals in 2–4 grids (ca. In addition, the generalist–specialist relationship between A. argenteus and A. speciosus was more clearly pronounced in the read data (Fig. They also suggested that A. speciosus had a higher tolerance against noxious substances (tannins) in acorns of Quercus crispula than A. argenteus. 2015). 2007). As expected from the hoarding behavior of the Apodemus species, both Apodemus species depend on acorn-producing tree species in the Fagaceae (assumed to be Q. crispula). Oleaceae species (assumed to be Fraxinus mandshurica) were consumed by A. argenteus from June to August, and by A. speciosus from August to October. Given that the DNA meta-barcoding approach does not provide the information on which part of a plant is consumed, a direct approach to investigate consumed parts of plants in each season may provide an additional perspective of the niche partitioning between the Apodemus species. Fuji region (Central Honshu), a higher dependency on the acorn-producing Quercus trees by A. speciosus was apparent, compared with A. argenteus which mainly relies on other tree species such as the Japanese red pine Pinus densiflora and the Japanese larch Larix kaempferi (Sekijima 1999). <>/ExtGState<>/Font<>/ProcSet[/PDF/Text/ImageC]/Properties<>/XObject<>>>/Rotate 0/Thumb 36 0 R/Type/Page>> 2017), but we observed the diet from 1 year only. Supplementary Data SD5.—Numbers of occurrence of each diet sequence for individuals. Onodera et al. Only when 1 species in a genus or in a family, or only 1 genus in a family, was listed in the plant species inventory of the study site, that listed species or genus was assumed to be the food item (e.g., Q. crispula in Fagaceae; see also Supplementary Data SD4). 2010, 2013; Nakahara et al. niche partitioning (Abrams, 1983; Schoener, 1974). Data on the population dynamics of Apodemus species (Saitoh et al. Supplementary Data SD2.—Obtained sequences, top BLAST hit genera, and estimated plant families. It is, however, also true that special carefulness is necessary for the quantitative interpretations of sequence reads (Deagle et al. However, the mechanism should be further tested with additional considerations: 1) In this study, most taxa were identified at only genus or family level. The PCR reaction mixture contained ca. 2016). endobj Indeed, A. argenteus has a broader vertical spatial niche (Abe 1986). Pompanon, F., B. E.Deagle, W. O.Symondson, D. S.Brown, S. N.Jarman, and P. Taberlet. Most of these 8 families (Betulaceae, Fabaceae, Oleaceae, Pinaceae, Poaceae, Rutaceae, Tiliaceae, and Ulmaceae) were tall tree species (Table 1; Fig. Recently, researchers have used DNA barcoding (Kartzinel et al. An advantage of the NGS meta-barcoding analysis compared with traditional methods lies in the higher sensitivity for the detection of minor dietary components. 2009; Ando et al. Map of the study area where the field investigation of the 2 wood mouse species (Apodemus argenteus and A. speciosus) was conducted. The 2 Apodemus species are basically omnivorous or granivorous (e.g., Abe and Oya 1974; Mizushima and Yamada 1974; Tachibana et al. The niche breadth of A. speciosus varied seasonally (Fig. 2016) to assess dietary niche overlap and segregation, and ultimately the discrimination of niches of coexisting species. Both Apodemus species consumed species of Fagaceae and Pinaceae more frequently in the latter half of the year (August–October; Figs. Tooth wear analysis techniques (mesowear and microwear) are employed to analyze dietary traits in proboscideans, perissodactyls and artiodactyls from 33 Pleistocene localities in Britain. 10–20 and 20–50 g, respectively (Ohdachi et al. The number of reads may therefore be useful at detecting major food items, as Nakahara et al. The study site is located in a mixed forest of conifers and broad-leaved trees. 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In the same study site, Saitoh et al. Taberlet, P., E.Coissac, F.Pompanon, C.Brochmann, and E. Willerslev. These 4 sequences were different only in length and otherwise had an identical sequence. 2015; Nakahara et al. Supplementary Data SD3.—Obtained reads for each sequence and individual. c Numbers of occurrence among the Apodemus individuals that ate dietary items that could be assigned to genus or species. 25292095), and by Green Science Research Center in Fukuyama University (granted to JJS). Galetti, M., R. R.Rodarte, C. L.Neves, M.Moreira, and R. Costa-Pereira. In this study, niche overlap was lower in earlier months (June and July). may also be possible] in Betulaceae, Fraxinus mandshurica in Oleaceae, Picea sp. Dietary profiles of Apodemus argenteus (A) and A. speciosus (B) summarized based on plant families. One classic mechanism of dietary niche partitioning is the grazer-browser spectrum, which suggests that some herbivores (grazers, such as zebras) eat only grasses, some (browsers, such as dik-dik) eat only plants that aren't grasses, and others eat both. It is likely that the 2 Apodemus species depend on different life stages of this plant species. 2015), the number of reads may reflect the dietary proportions. Genetic potential of dairy cows has improved significantly during last two decades (Figure 1). Our study indicated that A. speciosus were more dependent on Fagaceae plants than A. argenteus (Figs. 2; Supplementary Data SD4; Alnus sp. The sequence read data also supported the difference in diets between A. argenteus and A. speciosus and implied that Rutaceae was also a main dietary family on which A. argenteus heavily relied. 1988), and show hoarding behavior of acorns before winter (Miyaki and Kikuzawa 1988; Sone et al. In (A), the dark (upper) and light (lower) gray lines show niche breadth of A. argenteus and A. speciosus, respectively. Numbers in parentheses indicate individuals of Apodemus species consuming the taxa. In terms of the presence and absence of the plant families, the 2 mouse species consumed a similar diversity of food items. application/pdf 2017). Moreover, it is congruent with the ability of A. speciosus to be more tolerant to harmful effects of tannins contained in acorns through their possession of tannin-binding salivary proteins and tannase-producing enterobacteria (Shimada et al. (2013). 0.5 ha) with 4–5 100-m lines in each month. 2014). We used the QIAGEN multiplex PCR kit (QIAGEN, Tokyo, Japan) for the PCR reaction. Inference of the dietary proportion of animals from the reads has been criticized because various biological and technical factors may influence the abundance of reads (Deagle et al. <>/ExtGState<>/Font<>/ProcSet[/PDF/Text/ImageC]/XObject<>>>/Rotate 0/Thumb 18 0 R/Type/Page>> 7.3 Ma [million years ago]—Suzuki et al. Vertical habitat segregation has been reported for the semiarboreal A. argenteus and terrestrial A. speciosus (Sekijima 1993). For example, although sequence 41 (see Supplementary Data SD2) was identified as species in Rosaceae or Rhamnaceae, we selected Rosaceae because 192 BLAST top-hit sequences belonged to Rosaceae and only 1 to Rhamnaceae (192/193 > 0.95 for Rosaceae; Supplementary Data SD2). Today's dairy animal is called as biological machine, which consume feed and convert it in to milk. Conesa, A., S. Gotz, J. M. Garcia-Gomez, J. Terol, M. Talon, and M. Robles. [Betula sp. 2011) within RStudio (RStudio Team 2015). earlier in the year (June–August; Fig. ������.��Z��do~�U G�� �Z=�x��gư=�� %��z��^�hy�:稶|M��8͊��[��ulzw��IήB�X@U���J�n�:��X1�s�� Search for other works by this author on: Tohoku Research Center, Forestry and Forest Products Research Institute, Nabeyashiki, Shimo-Kuriyagawa, Morioka, Japan, Laboratory of Forest Biology, Division of Forest and Biomaterials Science, Graduate School of Agriculture, Kyoto University, Kyoto, Japan, Field Science Center, Hokkaido University, Tokuda, Nayoro, Japan, Field Science Center, Hokkaido University, Kita-11, Nishi-10, Sapporo, Japan, Vertical space use of voles and mice in woods of Hokkaido, Japan, Journal of the Mammalogical Society of Japan, Bulletin of the Iwate Prefecture Agricultural Experiment Station, Diet analysis by next-generation sequencing indicates the frequent consumption of introduced plants by the critically endangered red-headed wood pigeon (, Global patterns in the phylogenetic structure of island mammal assemblages, Proceedings of the Royal Society of London, B. We designated genus or family names for these identified items based on Supplementary Data SD2. Consistent with niche partitioning as a coexistence mechanism, we found that the small dietary differences were explained by a combination of foraging microhabitat and available prey, but this pattern was driven by only a small number of prey taxa. The term niche partitioning refers to the process by which natural selection drives competing species into different patterns of resource use or different niches (Hector and Hooper, 2002; MacArhur, 1958). The study site is covered by snow from December to May, making the sampling of the wood mice more difficult. Shimada, T., T.Saitoh, E.Sasaki, Y.Nishitani, and R. Osawa. 74 0 obj The sequence length of the target region was 59 bp on average (50–60 bp). The δ 15 N–δ 13 C biplot in Figure 7 shows the estimation of the SI ratio for the entire data set structured by species. Violle, C., D. R.Nemergut, Z.Pu, and L. Jiang. 2015) and stable isotopes (Djagouna et al. 2015; Lopes et al. %PDF-1.6 %���� 3) The pattern based on single-year data provided by this study should be confirmed by studies with multiple years to analyze annual variation of the diets of these wood mice. Niche partitioning by diet also may be reflected in other morphological and ecological characteristics (Emrich et al. Excluding the top shared family (Fagaceae), these percentages were 61% (74/121) and 42% (22/52) for A. argenteus and A. speciosus, respectively (Supplementary Data SD4 and SD5). Seasonal changes in the diet of Apodemus argenteus (dark gray, blue in the online pdf version) and A. speciosus (light gray, orange in the online pdf version) for plant families: (A) Fagaceae, (B) Betulaceae, (C) Fabaceae, (D) Oleaceae, (E) Pinaceae, (F) Tiliaceae, and (G) Ulmaceae. Akimoto, T., T.Saitoh, E.Sasaki, Y.Nishitani, and S. N. Jarman W. O.Symondson S.. 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